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How Amazon's data centers supercharged a decades-old water contamination crisis in rural Oregon, poisoned the groundwater of a farming community, paid a fraction of a penny in damages, and kept expanding.
Oregon's last coal plant closed in 2020. What replaced it — Amazon data centers — has poisoned the town's water, corrupted its government, and paid a fraction of a penny on the dollar in damages. The extraction never stopped. Only the name of the miner changed.
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